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Gone Away (Free verse) by Christof

How can I think of anyone but you? Your face, your mood, the trace of lilies; all this is remembrance. When you are dead, the grace of you will be gone not days or years. All time is calculation to make absence easier, evenings shorter, myself less alone. When I murmur 'only five days', my heart twists anti-clockwise.

Christof 11-Sep-02/9:01 AM
My thought was that portioning time into days, weeks etc. is easier to handle than the thought of eternity. And that the point of the five days is not that the time will seem longer, but that sometime she will die and then the period shall be eternal, compared to which 5 days is nothing.




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